31 October 2011 11:40 AM

Another no-go area in Londonistan

Earlier this year in the east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Newham, posters suddenly sprouted in the streets declaring: ‘You are entering a Sharia controlled zone. Islamic rules enforced.’ Underneath were images indicating that smoking, alcohol and music were banned. Also this year posters declaring Tower Hamlets a ‘gay-free zone’ were put up across the borough. Police and local councillors declared that they would take all such posters down.

Now, however, it seems that the threatening implications of self-declared ‘Muslim areas’ are spreading into the heart of our democracy.

Last Friday Mike Freer, MP for Finchley and Golders Green, was forced to abandon his constituency surgery at the North Finchley mosque and hide in a locked part of the building when a group of activists from the ‘Muslims against Crusades’ group forced their way in. The Daily Mail reported that Mr Freer, a gay man and a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, said he was called a ‘Jewish homosexual pig’.

In fact, Mr Freer said he only realised that the danger he was in possibly went beyond such abuse when was he made aware that ahead of this incident the group had posted up a reference to the attack last year on East Ham MP StephenTimms, who was stabbed by a Muslim woman while he too was holding a constituency surgery. This message warned

‘the attack on Mr Timms should serve as a “piercing reminder” to politicians that “their presence is no longer welcome in any Muslim area”’.

The message also stated that

‘“as a member of the Conservative Party”, Mr Freer “has the blood of thousands of Muslims on his hands”.’

Mr Freer, who also happens to be a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia (the ironies attending politically-correct ideology are rich indeed) was apparently targeted because he had demanded that Palestinian extremist Sheikh Raed Salah be banned from Britain earlier this year.

Understandably, Mr Freer now wants the Home Office to investigate ‘Muslims against Crusades’. But rather more pertinently, shouldn’t some arrests have been made? For by any standards this was threatening behaviour which intimidated an MP into being unable to carry out his constituency duties.

Effectively, therefore, the North Finchley mosque became a no-go area for this MP. This surely represented not only a threat to Mr Freer as an individual but to parliamentary democracy itself. More chilling still, it would seem that for ‘Muslims Against Crusades’ Finchley is now to be regarded as a Muslim area – presumably on the grounds that any area with a sizeable Muslim population is to be thus regarded -- and its inhabitants subjected as a result to Islamist intimidation.

Finchley happens to be home to a significant Jewish community which will now feel particularly vulnerable. But in fact everyone now comes under potential threat – including Muslims themselves -- as can be seen from what has taken place in east London.

For the posters there did not represent empty threats. The process of Islamisation through intimidation is well under way.

Earlier this year, four Tower Hamlets Muslims were jailed for at least 19 years for attacking a local white teacher who gave religious studies lessons to Muslim girls. An Asian woman – not a practising Muslim -- who worked in a pharmacy was threatened with her life unless she wore a headscarf or veil. And as Andrew Gilligan has reported, many more such Islamist attacks are taking place – which he claims the police are downplaying for fear of being accused of racism:

‘The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered more than a dozen other cases in Tower Hamlets where both Muslims and non-Muslims have been threatened or beaten for behaviour deemed to breach fundamentalist “Islamic norms.”

‘One victim, Mohammed Monzur Rahman, said he was left partially blind and with a dislocated shoulder after being attacked by a mob in Cannon Street Road, Shadwell, for smoking during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan last year.

‘... Teachers in several local schools have told The Sunday Telegraph that they feel “under pressure” from local Muslim extremists, who have mounted campaigns through both parents and pupils – and, in one case, through another teacher - to enforce the compulsory wearing of the veil for Muslim girls.

‘... Tower Hamlets’ gay community has become a particular target of extremists. Homophobic crimes in the borough have risen by 80 per cent since 2007/8, and by 21 per cent over the last year, a period when there was a slight drop in London as a whole.’

Such reports are – to put it mildly -- deeply disturbing. Yet from the ‘progressive’ chattering class and the politicians (embattled Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick being a notable exception with his stark warning that Islamists wanting to create an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain have infiltrated the Labour party), the response has been...silence.

We made a lot of progress towards secularism across Europe after WWII. This process has been allowed to slide backwards and I wish the political classes would pick up the torch once more.
It's long past times that Organised Religions had to comply with our laws on human rights and discrimination. Indeed they should be licensed and should be expected to proclaim it at every service.... or move elsewhere

Christmas Fairy yes they commit crime, they verbal abused and scarred the MP off, this guys are ignorant, hateful and racist, if they want to live like the biblical times it is up to them but they should not bring their beliefs to others.

Christmas Fairy,
Are you gay?
No, then you would not understand the Muslim threat against a gay man.
Stephen Timms was stabbed in the stomach by a Muslim woman at his East London constituency surgery. Mr Freer was threatened with the same.
Our M.P.s are being intimidated to tow the line by Islamists.
I find that VERY worrying.

Sir Winston Churchill noted the threat of Wahhabism on the 14th of June 1921 at the House of Commons.
'A large number of Bin Saud’s (King Abdul Aziz bin Saud (c. 1880-1953)), followers belong to the Wahhabi sect, a form of Mohammedanism (sic). The Wahhabis profess a life of exceeding austerity, and what they practice themselves they rigorously enforce on others. They hold it as an article of duty, as well as of faith, to kill all who do not share their opinions and to make slaves of their wives and children. Women have been put to death in Wahhabi villages for simply appearing on the streets. Austere, intolerant, well-armed, and blood-thirsty, in their own regions the Wahhabis are a distinct factor which must be taken into account.'
Nobody listened to Churchill then and, ninety years later, the penny still hasn't dropped. Just look around you.

Christmas Fairy, if you were a public figure and were threatened with knifing by not one Muslim as you said, but about 12, would you not be hysterical?
I would be.
We are threatened daily to the extent that all our holidays including yours [ Christmas], have to be called 'Winterval'.

Is there a group calle 'Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, atheists and agnostics against Jihad and Shariah' that I can join?

Reading Melanie Phillips book 'World turned Upside Down' currently. A bit too Israel focussed for my preference (understandable) but on the whole terrifying in its exposure of the reality that so many are denying. Britain is sleepwalking into Sharia.

Perhaps God has a sense of humour and is allowing this as punishment for Dawkinism. When you drive out good religion, you don't get no religion, you get bad religion.

Coincidence, or what? One of those Grauniad wimmin is writing today about extreme Haredim in Israel (the last bastion of civilization). They put up signs declaring areas they move into subject to strict Haredim rules. To uphold the rules they feel moved to assault women joggers and picket schools shouting "whore" as six year-old girls because their school uniforms allow some flesh to show (you know, knees or forearms). The article doesn't mention how gays fair. Is there a history of orthodox resorting to violence? Of course, most Haredim, who are, well, religious in the best sense, are ashamed of these fundamentalists. And Grauniad wimmin are motivated to mention such goings-on by their prejudice against Israel, and possibly, who knows?, against Judaism (although they never say anything that would support such an inference). Might something similar be going on here?

Christmas Fairy - a mosque is not just a place of worship. It is much more than that. Neither is Islam just another religion. It is much more than that. Churches are just places of worship. Churches do not have martial arts departments.

I think it is about time to rise up against this Alqaeda fanatics, most of this people never worked one day in their life how come they criticize us? if they don't like our ways, our laws our drinking, smoking and dancing culture, they should make things easy and move to sharia law countries places like Saudi Arabia, Iran or Somalia.

The Mosque is a place of worship and not a political platform. Many many local mosque attendees expressed their dislike of the mosque being used in this way and showed their protest by staying away from the clinic. After two clinics held in the last few months you can count the number of people who came to see Mike Freer on the fingers of one hand. Your implication that Finchley may become a "no go area" is hysterical and ridiculous, Jews and Muslims live side by side in peace in Finchley. The group Muslims against Crusades are not from Finchley and they came to give out leaflets outside. Far from "storming" the mosque they came in to pray and one person from amongst them got angry and abusive. So, I guess one angry man would make Finchley a "no go area" then?

It's remarkable that the political and talking class have learned nothing from history; when there is no rule of law, there will be the rule of violence. You can only push people so far, and then things will get ugly - and in that; I give Phillips right; the islamist will have their revolutionary situation and in that regard They Will have won a victory. But they will not win in a outright confrontation, but I fear we all risk to loose what we hold dear if it comes to that. So, authorities better wake up and buck up to act as they should as guardians of civilization, instead of catering to our decent into barbary!

I am so glad my ancestors left benighted england centuries ago. The british lion has lost it's fangs. What a nation of spineless whiners you've become. Lower case is intentional as you lot deserve it. MAN UP FOR PETE'S SAKE (As any reference to G*d is verboten).

Doesn't the fact that the MP was holdig his surgery in the mosque better reflect the relationship of his constituents and himself rather than the nasty nutters who invade it? Apparently not if you are intent on playing up every such incident as being evidence of the onward march of Islamism.

"But in fact everyone now comes under potential threat" - As everyone knows, it may start with the Jews, but it ends with people like Mr Freer, who've been actually fighting Islamophobia (presumably, in order to make Britain even "freer" for Islamist zones than it already is).

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